Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login We’re ready for lockdown too. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I’d be happy to do that as well, but as history has shown us, when they promise tax repeals, they rarely happen. When Howard put forward GST, as we all know, the states were supposed to remove stamp duties. Not only did they no remove them, they increased them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Which part of the the "it's not the deaths it's the overwhelming of ICU departments" are you not getting? Are all those medicos in UK , Spain and Italy begging for equipment, PPE etc all just a lefty hoax as well? Take a look at these charts: Italy took less than 1 week Mar 7 (233 dead) to Mar 13 (1266) but then the graph steepens so Mar 19 (3405) to Mar 26 (8215) added 4810 deaths in a week! USA (lagging) took just over 1 week to get from 206 dead (Mar 19) to 1295 (Mar 28) - you can extrapolate from there. But the issue is that for every death, around 6x that number need hospitalisation (and more to the point ICU). Everyone keeps quoting the normal flu season in the US which kills around 35,000 BUT that is over a 20 (or so) week period with a max load of around 1800 per week and far fewer require ICU for ordinary flu. With the CURRENT load of 123,750 cases and a hospitalisation rate of 4% that's 4,950 requiring hospital beds NOW. And USA hasn't got to the take off point yet... hopefully our earlier action will help Australia's circumstances and we WILL be able to get back to work sooner rather than later.
More to the point, you'd be put in 14 day quarantine on arrival in which ever other state you fly to...
Karen, re your "which part of" response", your arguments are based on the healthcare systems of the UK, Spain and Italy, all of which are dysfunctional at the best of times. Australia has one of the best health systems in the world, yet we are making decisions based on some of the worst. Perhaps you might consider the comments of a professor of medicine from Stanford? https://nationalpost.com/opinion/munk-debates-were-making-high-stakes-covid-19-decisions-without-reliable-data
I'm only flying to and from Bris to pickup the 365 then drive back over the border.....which is the isolation occurs.I can't afford that time.
Sent them an email/left my phone number with 'em hopefully one of those will work. Cancelled Merrimbulah.
You do realise the border is currently closed? I believe they ARE policing it. Local police sergeant was at MCY airport this week to make sure arrivals were going into isolation. Not sure what the situation would be with motels etc Colleen and I cancelled our road trip to Goulburn (was supposed to leave Wed) because we couldn't count on accomodation, meals etc, especially in smaller towns.
'Sigh' Yes deeer! That's what the post was all about. Sometimes I can see why Ian and Greg and Pat and probably pless.............. ...........................................................
Oh, you've cancelled - I understood from your post that you were still planning to drive across the border. Sorry.
Definitely one to take home and show Mum. Classy. Woman arrested and fined for failing to stop at SA border, coughing on police http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-29/woman-arrested-after-failing-to-stop-at-sa-border-checkpoint/12100554
New package in the making. https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-stimulus-scott-morrison-promises-third-package-biggest-yet/096dfcb9-4ad6-4589-bc5b-684c6e3aacc6
The problem and it is real, is saturation of ICU beds. Medical care here is only as good as available resources. Here’s an article published in the Medical Journal of Australia just a few days ago https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/212/10/when-system-breaks-queuing-theory-model-number-intensive-care-beds-needed
